In the Grim-dark future, Ruby Rose finds herself alone in a galaxy of horrors.
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The Main Story
- After Ruby falls into the void, her soul finds itself suspended in the Immaterium where she is immediately set upon by daemons looking to feast upon her small soul. Were it not for her silver eyes activating, her soul would have been devoured.
- While in the Immaterium, she gazes upon four large figures in the distance. It is all but stated that they are the four Chaos gods: Khorne, Nurgle, Tzeentch, and Slaanesh. Fortunately, her soul goes ignored by them as she is beneath their notice.
- At the height of the battle with the Orks, the 13th Black Crusade is taking place. To be more precise, right at the Blackstone Fortress is sent crashing into Cadia's surface, and expanding the Eye of Terror. The result is Kanrilia comes under siege from a massive Daemon invasion, tearing through Imperium and Ork alike with utter destruction on both. Ruby herself falls to her knee overwhelmed, comparing the Daemons to just like the Grimm.
- The Greater Daemon, Xog'drithuuch, itself is walking nightmare fuel. The massive daemon is almost entirely composed of Too Many Mouths. It speaks with a cacophony of different voices speaking at once, and it has the power to use it's voice to bring almost everyone to their knees. It effortlessly decapitates Gurzag, the Ork Warboss, and tosses Ruby around like a rag-doll.
- After dispatching of Xog'drithuuch and banishing him back to the Warp, Ruby now has the attention of none other than Be'lakor, the First Demon Prince of Chaos Undivided himself. And if her nightmare just prior to waking up is any indication, he's already begun his cruel work...
- Following the Battle of Kanrilla, Ruby experiences a horrible nightmare after collapsing from exhaustion. At first, it just seems like the guilt and trauma of her past(which would be bad enough by itself), but then it becomes clear that something...else is working through her dreams to torment her.
- A voice begins speaking in concert with her own inner doubts as to whether or not she deserves to live and the suffering she's endured.
- In her recollection of her confrontation with Salem, something speaks in concert with her, and shows her visions of those who have stood against Chaosnote and their terrible fates.note Your mother said those words to me./They said those words to us.She was wrong, too./They were wrong, too.
- Last but not least, Ruby ends the dream bearing witness to a massacre of Imperials, Remnantians, and others besides at the hands of Daemons and Grimm. Unable to do anything other than watch, she then bears witness to a terrible mountain of ruins and corpses, with the higher up the peak she looks, the more people she recognizes.
- As she nears the top, she sees more and people she knows and lovesnote before it culminates with Weiss, Blake, and Yang's mangled bodies. Poor Ruby can't even cry or scream in this dream.
- And at the very top is Be'lakor, sitting with his back to her on his throne of shadows, watching in the distance as a golden palace, either literally the Imperial Palace on Holy Terra or a symbol of the Imperium as a whole/The Emperor, begins to crumble. And then he stands up and begins to turn around. It's a very good thing Ruby wakes up before she can see the First Prince's face.
Side-stories
- Weiss lands on all worlds, Solemnace, home to the one and only Trazyn the Infinite. Despite putting up a good fight, she is captured and imprisoned within Trazyn's vast gallery. As the Necron Overlord studies her, Weiss is left frozen, a prisoner inside her own body, unable to breathe, unable to scream, and a literal showpiece.
- While Ruby sees a side of the Imperium that's A Lighter Shade of Grey, Blake experiences the absolute worst aspects of the Imperium, particularly the xenophobia, bigotry, and religious fanaticism. She lands smack dab in the middle of a Hive City that is conducting a genocidal purge of all mutants, abhumans, and other undesirables in response to the Opening of the Great Rift. Since she would be considered a mutant, or at least an Abhuman, in the Imperium, this puts her right on the list.
- If there is a place worst than Hell, it is Commorragh, the Dark City. It is here Yang is taken after being captured by Drukhari. She is tortured, made a slave, and forced to fight as a gladiator with the hope of winning consecutive matches to gain her freedom...something the Drukhari Archon has no intention of honoring.
- What is more, through catching a glimpse of Ruby through Yang's memories during one of the initial torture sessions, the Archon has learned that she has a sister and taken steps to take advantage of that. After finding a slave girl of similar age and stature to his impression of Ruby, he commissioned a Haemonculus under his employ to painfully mold her into Ruby's image, even using Yang's DNA to alter her genetic structure. Then he tortures the poor girl in front of Yang and makes the offer to fight for him in the arena in exchange for both of their releases.
